Word: grantley
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Jamaica is ready and willing to grant the concession, but Federal Prime Minister Sir Grantley Adams loudly objects. Under the constitution, Adams must run the federation on an income of $5,000,000, chipped in by the island members. When the federation is five years old, he will be able to pass income-tax laws that will give the federal government more means and more power. In the meantime, he looks with suspicion on any possible crippling tax concessions granted by the individual territories. Before leaving last month for Canada, he issued a warning. "If island after island," he said...
...black robes. The princess walked to the speaker's platform and eased into the bliss of an "air-conditioned" chair. While the pipes underneath blew cool air up around her, Margaret read the Queen's congratulations and her own on the new union. Prime Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams responded, and with this the federal legislature, elected March 25, was inaugurated, and the new nation, joining ten island governments, was in business...
...upset, the Socialists ran second in Jamaica and Trinidad. But a nearly unanimous Socialist vote from the Windwards and Leewards gave the Federal Labor Party an overall majority, with 25 seats. Barring shifts of allegiance by F.L.P. members, the legislature seems certain to elect the F.L.P.'s Sir Grantley Adams, 59, an Oxford-educated lawyer, Premier of Barbados, as first Prime Minister of The West Indies...
Probable winner of the election: the mildly socialist West Indies Federal Labor Party, which should win at least 26 of the 45 seats and organize the government. Probable Prime Minister: Oxford-educated Lawyer Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, 59, one of the pioneer federationists and founders of the F.L.P., now Premier of Barbados...
...West Indies, where for 300 years a select "plantocracy" has run the British Commonwealth's third oldest Parliament (after Britain itself and Bermuda). Governor Sir Robert Arundell will hand over part of his remaining powers to Barbados' first Cabinet, bossed by Socialist Prirne Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams...